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Curious about what you've heard. From what I've read/heard Steve Taylor and JuJuan Johnson may not be back. In the case of Johnson, grades may be part of that as well. As far as recruits, sounds like the kid from GA (Hill) is still coming. Cohen is completely up in the air, don't know about the others. For 2015, Noskowiak is up in the air as well. http://painttouches.com/2014/04/01/steve-taylor-reveals-truths-about-knee-playing-time/ "Taylor smiled when asked if his plans had changed after hearing of Wojciechowski’s hiring. Derrick Wilson said he expects every non-senior player on Marquette’s roster will return, and it sounds as though Taylor will make the prediction come true. " You're partially right - Taylor would have left if Buzz would have stayed. All Wojo needs to do is flash his two national championship rings and I think the recruits will be much less willing to look elsewhere.
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This. For having as much talent as Coach K does, he sure does underperform in the tourney. Bounced by double-digit seeds three times since 2008 (yes, one national championship though).
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Let K-Rod close. Fool another team into thinking he's still a great closer and trade him for another prospect. No downside to that. -
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[sarcasm]The Milwaukee Brewers First Base Circus of 2013 and likely 2014 says hello.[/sarcasm] Pick two of the three. Can't get all three for $24M this season. Actually, you can't get Ramirez + Garza for $24M. Ramirez + Hart = $22M + Hart's incentives. Ramirez + Hart vs. Fielder? All things equal, prolly Ramirez and Hart, but I think the Brewers lost a lot more than Fielder's WAR when they lost their biggest, if not only, left-handed threat. If anything, it would have saved this site a boatload of bandwidth and debate over 33 pages of posts. -
Wasn't a charge - it was a push-off. Used his forearm. Prolly 50/50, but it does make up for the awful call against Kaminsky in the first half.
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Two dunks off of terrible shots and a guy who is 1-9 from 3 makes a 3. Not a good sign...
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Virginia Tech plays in the ACC too. So why did Buzz make a bad move, but Smart to Wake is better move for him than to Marquette? Regardless, my bet is that Smart is eying the NBA next.
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It would be nice if there were HS kids with upside available in the 16th round, but the reality is that most HS kids who have upside who haven't been drafted by that point will likely choose a college scholarship than sign for what the average 16th round pick signs for and take their chance they can parlay that scholarship into additional coaching that gets them drafted much higher in three years. Unless you have a situation where you have some bonus pool money left over which IIRC was the case with Denson, or you have a kid who isn't particularly fond of school and the idea of spending more time in it, but even so I'm not nearly as high on Denson as many here are. Kind of like TheCrew07 says about pitchers who don't have a plus 2nd pitch, if all a hitter has is power and no other plus tools they probably aren't going to get far either. Bummed about Lamontagne. Was hoping that 2010 season wasn't a mirage and that he could develop into something. Injuries derail many a career.
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I think the reason Weaver signed was because he was drafted by his local/"hometown" Angels. If Weaver was regarded as the best prospect, there's a reason he was still available at #12.
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I can understand turning down UCLA. 1) Lots of pressure and very high expectations at UCLA, and B) Smart has no knowledge of or experience with recruiting on the West coast. I believe only one of his players at VCU is not from the Eastern time zone, and that guy is from exurban Nashville, TN. He at least has some knowledge of the Midwest landscape and likely has more connections in the Midwest. And like RockCo said, where are the four-star kids from Chicago going to go? The five-star kids will go wherever (Duke, UNC, Kansas, Kentucky, etc.), but the four-star kids aren't going to go to DePaul or Northwestern. And Illinois plays in an arena that was built in 1963; Marquette plays in an NBA arena. Not the best NBA arena, but still an NBA arena and way better than the State Farm Center. Where is a recruit going to want to play - an NBA arena, or a "hall" built in 1963? ESPN is reporting that Wake Forest has reached out to Smart too. Just because Wake was successful back in the day of Tim Duncan and Chris Paul means about the same as Marquette playing off of the days of Dwayne Wade. Wake has only been to the tourney twice in the last nine years.
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http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/buzz-williams-needed-someone-new-to-appreciate-him-b99230830z1-251607361.html "At more than $260,000 per player per year, Marquette spends more on men's basketball than any school in the country except Duke. At $2.8 million a season, Williams was drawing a top-10 salary. The Golden Eagles stay in five-star hotels and little expense is spared on the coach during recruiting trips." That's a reason to leave VCU for Marquette... if college basketball is where you want to be. That, and two back-to-back top 25 recruiting classes you would be inheriting (if you add Fischer to the class of 2013, it may be a top-5 class). I had a hunch that Smart was eying the NBA though. From what I hear, Buzz didn't like the new Big East. I think it was a little of that, and a lot of alumni/boosters giving him an earful about the team's performance this year. Or maybe he knows it's time to leave before people figure out he's not that great of a coach.
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Francisco wasn't good defensively at 1B, but remember, he was new to 1B. He didn't play 1B growing up or through the minors. What I wonder/worry about is if he was given another year to practice at 1B and became average defensively, what would his upside be? Sounds like this regime, possibly/probably including Melvin, doesn't have the time or patience for that.
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I hope Marquette waits until Dayton is eliminated from the tourney so they can talk with Archie Miller, brother of Arizona head coach Sean Miller. And I'll reiterate my interest in the coach from Stephen F. Austin, Brad Underwood. He was an assistant under Frank Martin at Kansas State before taking over at SFA. Sandy Cohen hasn't been released from his scholarship yet. Marquette has a policy across all sports that they will not release a player from his scholarship until after he/she meets with the new head coach. Cohen talked with Marquette AD on the phone, and apologized for not following school policy.
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I think UW's defense was just fine. Keep in mind, Oregon shot 91.3% from the free-throw line (season average 76.6%) and 44.4% from 3-pt (season average 39.2%, but that includes two misses in the last 15 seconds so before that they shot 50%, 8-16); not including the awful officiating, if Oregon had shot their season averages for free throws and 3-pt shots they would have had nine fewer points and UW would have won by 17. (UW shot slightly higher from 3 pt., 39.1% vs. 37.3%, but much worse from the free throw line, 65% vs. 74.4%). The key was UW's 14 offensive rebounds, which helped them generate 11 more shots than Oregon.
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Buzz got 7 years, $18M from Virginia Tech. Marquette doesn't have that kind of $dough to spend on a coach. I had a feeling that eventually he would end up back down south somewhere. Can't blame Buzz for taking that kind of money. Maybe that Mercer coach will think Marquette is an upgrade. Five of his top six scorers are seniors, so this would probably be a good time for him to leave. Or the coach from Stephen F. Austin - two tourney appearances the last two years, 58-7 combined record. Only one loss by 10 or more points the last two years - this year by 10 to Texas. Last year lost by one to #4 seed Stanford. Or an assistant from Michigan State...
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I'm concerned about Creighton; even though their defense is poor they are #1 in the nation in 3-pt FG% and that comes from taller players (McDermott, Wragge). I don't know that Kaminski can defend McDermott outside (well, few if any teams have anyone who can defend him inside and outside). Dekker/Hayes should be able to guard Wragge and hopefully are smart enough and coached well enough to know to stay no further than a foot from Wragge at all times. The Badgers have enough of a post presence in Kaminski/Hayes/Dekker to be able to get McD & Wragge on the bench with foul trouble.
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Worst case scenario, if the Bucks do end up with the #4 pick (or the Lakers offer a bunch of future 1st round picks to move up to take Parker/Wiggins), I'm curious as to why people don't want Smart. He doesn't have the height of an ideal #2, but he has the strength/muscle to play bigger than he is and create his own shot, and he isn't going to let someone else post him up and back him down. Is it because he's a bit of a "hot head"? I'd argue that the Bucks need someone who plays with some fire in their belly, even if it means going over the top occasionally. Since coming back from suspension, Smart has averaged 18.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 4.3 steals per game. This says a few things to me; first, the steals and to an extent the rebounds says that he plays defense, something the Bucks need. Smart finished third in the nation in steals this season. To average 18.7 points and 6 assists a game says that he has the basketball IQ to take/create the shot if need be but also know when to pass to a teammate; he isn't a ball hog even though he scores. Two of his three highest scoring games were against teams that made the tournament, so he isn't padding his stats against weak teams.
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Only four of the Bucks next 14 games are at home, so that takes some of the pressure off. Biggest threats are Orlando and the Lakers at home. Probably 50/50 against Orlando and 75/25 they beat the Lakers. So Philly should still have at least a one-game lead with six to play. Speaking of the Lakers, what really ticks me off is that they got Kendall Marshall for free. 12th overall pick in 2012, and Washington waives him in October. He sat out there for almost two months, so everybody in the NBA could have had him, but the Bucks could have and should have signed him before the Lakers, especially when Knight was out for almost three weeks in November.
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I agree, but for whatever reason, every list I see has Villanova ahead of Wisconsin as the next #1 seed in. Arizona just lost to an unraked Oregon, but I don't think that knocks them out. 1. Florida 2. Wichita State 3. Villanova 4. Arizona 5. Wisconsin 6. Virginia One thing that I absolutely want if we are a #2 is to get into Wichita State's region. Not that I think they are even going to make the 2nd weekend, but I'd drool over playing that untested squad in the Elite 8. Interesting Site.. http://www.bracketmatrix.com/ No Duke on your list? They beat Virginia in their only matchup this year (close game at Duke, so probably equal on neutral court). I'd rather be a #2 in the same region with Wichita State as the #1 than a #1 in a region with Villanova, Duke, or Syracuse as the #2.
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Anderson and Der. Wilson are both excellent defenders. Not players you want as starters, but they are players that every team in D1 would love to have coming off the bench. I want to say that Johnson was sick for a while and that was why he had some DNPs. Also with Mayo and Thomas playing so well as of late that doesn't leave many minutes available with those two ahead of him. With Thomas gone next year that will open up more minutes for Johnson. Taylor was having some more knee trouble which kept him out of some games. But I think that the decision to redshirt should be left up to the kids, not the coach. You shouldn't be able to make a kid redshirt if he doesn't want to.
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Remember, he got the (crap) kicked out of him in Wisconsin. A sad day. So lucky to have had him in his prime during my childhood.
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A couple of years ago either UW or Marquette (I think UW) was given a 6 seed and got first round games in Milwaukee. It was inferred that UW deserved higher than a 6 seed but was given a lower seed in exchange for nearby games. They changed it a couple of years ago to try to get teams closer to home the first two rounds, usually the top seeds in the first two rounds (as many 1-4 seeds as they could) but occasionally to balance a lower seeding. Milwaukee may host both the 3/6 seeds for the Midwest and the 3/6 seeds for the South if that gets the 3 seed in each (or the 6 seed that deserved a higher seed) closer to home. It would be very possible for Milwaukee to host UW as a 2/3 seed for one Region and MSU/Michigan as the 2/3/4 in another Region.
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As I mentioned earlier, how in the world do you allow Wragge to take 8 3-point shots? He's shooting 48.3% from 3 this year - that's like shooting 72% from two point land. You don't let someone like that get the ball. You have to guard two guys on Creighton; let the other three beat you. Guys not named McDermott or Wragge were 13-25 and 4-12 from three. It is a matchup problem with Creighton because Marquette's best offensive advantages over Creighton (Gardner, Otule) are kind of defensive liabilities because Creighton's a small team and their forwards step out and shoot the three. But you do one of two things - you put Juan Anderson on Wragge and tell him to never stray more than three feet from Wragge, or you put Otule out on Wragge. Sounds crazy, but I remember when Marquette upset Kentucky in the tourney 20 years ago when Kentucky was launching 3's left and right. Marquette put McIlvaine out on the perimeter and whether it just psychologically affected Kentucky or it really caused them to alter their shots Kentucky couldn't make 3's and Marquette won. 3-point shooters are used to being guarded by smaller guys, but when a 7-footer with a 7.5 foot wingspan is in front of you it alters your shot and makes it harder to see/focus on the rim when you shoot.
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Conspicuous by his absence from this quote is Mike Fiers. I find it odd that people write him off based off of 22.1 innings last year and do not take into consideration the 127 innings pitched the year before. His career line over 152 innings - 4.20 ERA, 1.316 WHIP, 9.0 K/9, 3.38 K/BB - is not bad at all. That career line is a good #4 starter. Compare this to 29.1 IP for Burgos last year that weren't much better than Fiers' 22.1 IP (one could argue worse than Fiers - higher BB/9 and lower K/9 than Fiers). If Lucroy would let Fiers throw his changeup more often like he did in early 2012 I think Fiers will revert more to his 2012 form. I rarely saw him throw it last year and towards the end of 2012, and that seemed to coincide with Lucroy coming off of the DL in 2012 and being the starting catcher in 2013. Maybe it's just coincidence, but I noticed last year and in late 2012 he wasn't throwing the changeup much.
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I'd like to see Kevin Shackelford continue his Huntsville season and overall 1.6 BB/9 line from 2013 and increase his K's. If Hillis and Martin Viramontes can improve their control, between those two and Shackelford the Brewers could have some nasty bullpen prospects in a few years. I'm really intrigued by the numbers that Michael Strong has put up and hope he can find more control to take advantage of his H/9 and K/9 numbers as a lefty. I would also like Barrett Astin, Zach Quintana, and Drew Gagnon to show why they were worthy of 3rd round picks.
